Job Detail

Job Title -IT Scrum Master
Location - Chicago, IL/Syracuse, NY (1 month remote than onsite)
Experience: 15+ years of experience with a minimum of 6 years of experience of pure Scrum practices as a Scrum Master

Job Summary:
· The Scrum Master’s primary responsibility is to organize work items for any technology projects.
.The scrum master will work with Project / Program managers to organize work, maintain backlog, and report on the progress.
Essential Functions, Job Duties & Responsibilities:
· Meet/exceed the customer’s (internal and external) expectations by understanding, anticipating, and meeting customer needs. Exhibit proactive communication; act and think with customers in mind
· Friendly, enthusiastic, and energetic with customers, co-workers, managers, and visitors. Promote and project a positive company image; treats others with courtesy and respect
· Consults with leadership and key stakeholders to ensure that project milestones are identified and tracked
· Proactively identify, assess, and resolve issues and mitigate risks that may threaten productivity, quality, goals, objectives, and project delivery
· Facilitates and leads all Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog Management
· Acts as a leader who guides, coaches, and supports the Scrum team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services to our customers
· Develops and improves Agile processes, prioritizes development and improvements, and works alongside key stakeholders to implement
· Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques
· Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
· Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
· Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
· Drive team iteration execution communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from the uncontrolled injection of work
· Manage project conflicts and challenges to keep operations running at a high performance; work with leadership to resolve people problems and roadblocks
· Maintain team data in TFS to support estimates and execution
· Set and review status of the project; manage schedules, prepare status reports, and present high-level project readouts for senior management – specifically burn down charts, team velocity, and other relevant metrics
· Monitor the effectiveness of Scrum team processes and performance
· Lead team efforts in continuous improvement by helping the team take ownership of their actions items as identified during retrospectives
· Mentor and coach the teams on Agile methodology and Scrum values and process
· Support growth of agile, specifically Scrum, within the organization